Wow. Mikovits has been antivax basically since her legitimate scientific career ended in disgrace and criminal activity. But this is still shocking.https://twitter.com/crackedscience/status/1264551806358753281 …
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Replying to @dfreedman7
This is not news to those of us who’ve followed the antivaccine movement a long time. She was on the antivax circuit in 2009, even BEFORE her legitimate scientific career came to an end.
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Replying to @gorskon
Interesting. I thought she was pushed into the antivax world bc of her failed career (like so many quacks). Will need to dig up some of the old SBM posts
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Replying to @dfreedman7
My guess is that her descent into XMRV pseudoscience was a manifestation of her becoming a conspiracy theorist and that her antivax views were yet another manifestation of that process occurring around the same time.
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Replying to @gorskon @dfreedman7
Another possibility is that, before it al came crashing down, Mikovits was invited to speak about XMRV at antivax conferences like Autism One and imbibed antivax ideology there.
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Perhaps, but she was already clearly inclined in that direction, as this interview from October 2009 (soon after her XMRV paper was published in Science) clearly shows. She speculated that vaccines activate ERVs in lymphocytes, thus causing autism. https://web.archive.org/web/20091014153804/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/is-autism-associated-with_b_316986.html …
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